1.   If the cruise companies are having trouble filling berths now, what is going to happen when these come on line?

2.   That added revenue helps explain why the closer ships come to sailing day, the deeper the discounts they offer, hoping to fill empty berths.

3.   Twenty-five thousand cruise berths will be filled each week from May to September.

4.   The challenge is filling berths at a profit in a business that keeps adding new and bigger ships.

5.   The other semifinal berth will be filled Friday night when Gigi Fernandez and Natasha Zvereva play Lindsay Davenport and Mary Joe Fernandez.